Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
"The rule is clear that, to establish a cause of action in conversion, the plaintiff must show legal ownership or an immediate superior right of possession to a specific identifiable thing and must show that the defendant exercised an unauthorized dominion over the thing in question . . . to the exclusion of the plaintiff's rights" (Independence Discount Corp. v. Bressner,
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